"..........from an AI bot (my method of doing anything on my pi)."
I would suggest that the official documentation is a better source.
Indeed. One might think that a GMM (Giant Mashup Machine) would give credence to official documentation over unsubstantiated rumours, but it seems not.
I have already referenced
Thermal control - to keep the cpu core temperature below 85 degrees C - is described in detail here:
Frequency management and thermal control - https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentati ... al-control
There is also a Raspberry Pi News Blog Post on the same topic -
Heating and cooling Raspberry Pi 5 - https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/heatin ... erry-pi-5/
[ ... ]For normal usage of your Raspberry Pi, adding cooling is entirely optional. The idle performance of a Raspberry Pi 4 and a Raspberry Pi 5 is about the same, and under typical loads Raspberry Pi 5 will run cooler than a similarly loaded Raspberry Pi 4. However, a heavy continuous load will mean that the board could potentially go into thermal throttling. Throttling happens as there are software controls to limit CPU speeds if things get start to get too toasty. Although, even when fully throttled, a Raspberry Pi 5 is still going to run faster than a Raspberry Pi 4!
[ ... ]For normal use adding cooling is optional, although performance may be improved with the addition of active cooling.
When deciding on a cooling solution you should consider what sort of use you’re going to put your Raspberry Pi 5 to, and make a decision on cooling based on that, rather than just arbitrarily adding cooling. Because for a lot of day-to-day use cases, it’s not going to be needed.
Cooling of any type isn’t mandatory, no harm will come to your Raspberry Pi if it’s left uncooled — and even while throttling under heavy load, a Raspberry Pi 5 is still faster than an unthrottled Raspberry Pi 4.
And as a counterpoint, from another Guy On The Internet. I have an RPi[5] board in ex-factory configuration. No Active Cooler, no Case Fan. Worse than that, there is an M2 'HAT' which both impedes natural airflow over the board and probably adds to the heat load. The RPi[5] running RasPiOS Bookworm is fine and has been for months. If I deliberately run a stress test I can see that it throttles. But it has never frozen or crashed.
I have suggested running the 'bare' OS without the custom libraries or scripts as a comparator. That seems to have been ignored.
Statistics: Posted by B.Goode — Sat Feb 08, 2025 10:28 am